Indonesia’s Top 10 Tech Start-Ups

By

Shibani Mahtani

Oct 9, 2012 SGT

Harpoen

It’s no secret that Indonesia is becoming more important to the world’s largest tech companies. It has more than 30 million Internet users, according to market-intelligence firm IDC, and a mobile-phone penetration of 78%, according to Nielsen. It’s also among the top markets in the world for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Google opened a new office in Jakarta in March.

But escaping the limelight a little – at least outside Indonesia – are Indonesia’s many homegrown tech startups, which are tapping a huge domestic market to launch everything from e-commerce portals to news-aggregation websites. Here is the WSJ’s informal survey of Indonesia’s top tech start-ups.

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